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Brubaker (1980) 6.9
The new warden of a small prison farm in Arkansas tries to clean it up of corruption after initially posing as an inmate. Director:Stuart Rosenberg |
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Cast
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John Deach
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Larry Lee Bullen
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Walter
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Roy Purcell
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Tim McIntire | ... |
Huey Rauch
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Richard Ward | ... |
Abraham Cook
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Zaranska
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C.P. Woodward
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Rory Poke
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Carol
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Eddie Caldwell
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Wendel
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When the new Warden comes in disguised as an inmate, he sees first hand all the corruption and scams the guards and prison officials and running. When he reveals himself, and starts to implement reforms to stop the corruption, the local business community, who had been benefiting from the scams, fights back, and the corrupt southern prison system, starts making political trouble for the new warden. Written by Brian W Martz <B.Martz@Genie.com>
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The most wanted man in Wakefield prison is the warden! See more »Genres:
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Country:
USALanguage:
EnglishRelease Date:
20 June 1980 (USA) See more »Also Known As:
As Grades do Inferno See more »Box Office
Gross:
$37,100,000 (USA)Company Credits
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[hands barber $2]
Barber: Costs five to get you no haircut now, Zaranska. Two only gets you a crew-cut.
Zaranska: Fuck, I could use this on a bed.
Barber: It'll all come off then. Maybe an ear with it.
Barber: [later] What's it be, my man?
Henry Brubaker: [hands barber $5] Leave the ears.
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(uncredited)
Written by Jimmy Webb
Unknown performer
Heard in Brubaker's car
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Over 6500 people applied to be extras in the movie whilst the film itself features up to 1000 prisoners at any one time. The movie features a number of retired prison guards from various jails including the formerly active Junction City Prison where this film was shot. When casting, the production contacted half-way houses, employment offices and parole officers to find newly released ex-cons. Director Stuart Rosenberg was keen to use as many real-life ex-convicts as possible because he maintained that they move and talk a particularly way, and that was usually very cautiously. See more »Goofs
In a restaurant scene, a Conn's Potato Chip sales display can be seen. Conn's are only made and sold in Ohio, not Arkansas. See more »Quotes
Zaranska: Let's just take a little bit off around the ears.[hands barber $2]
Barber: Costs five to get you no haircut now, Zaranska. Two only gets you a crew-cut.
Zaranska: Fuck, I could use this on a bed.
Barber: It'll all come off then. Maybe an ear with it.
Barber: [later] What's it be, my man?
Henry Brubaker: [hands barber $5] Leave the ears.
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Soundtracks
"Galveston"(uncredited)
Written by Jimmy Webb
Unknown performer
Heard in Brubaker's car
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I saw this movie with my wife, who wasn't thrilled that I brought this back from the video store. She's the type that pulls movies off of the "new release" shelf without fail. But as we got into this movie, she changed her mind.
Robert Redford plays Henry Brubaker, a prison warden who is recruited to reform brutal Wakefield Penitentiary, in Arkansas. The conditions are terrible, with men sleeping in puddles of mop water and being regularly beaten, tortured, and murdered. Brubaker gets a handle on the conditions there by sneaking into the jail disguised as an incoming criminal.
When he finally begins his tenure as warden, he meets strong resistance from the community, which is used to the prison being the source of local income and slave labor. The scenes in which Brubaker has to deal with the morally corrupt prison board are powerful and captivating. A good view.
Cinematography is questionable, and the editing TV movie-like. Acting is superb, and the local color interesting. I give the film a B-.
Things to watch for: white trash sister, Morgan Freeman's debut, rape scene.